On my wedding day, I carried around my Hasselblad 500 c/m with one roll of Kodak Porta 160 and blogged about it last year- CLICKHERE to see that post. What I didn’t mention was the fact that, on the morning of my wedding, I gave each groomsmen a Yashica T film camera, with a roll of 36 exposures and told them to document the day however they’d like to.

A Tiny History on Yashica T’sThe Yashica T’s were a high end automatic ‘point and shoot’ through the 80’s and 90’s; many pro photographers had a Yashica T in their kit due to the fact that they were all made with Carl Zeiss glass thus producing beautiful images.

I told the boys, all you have to do is point and shoot. No pressure… just take a picture if you see something you like. You don’t have to use the whole roll, and if you do, I have more… take as little or as many as you want. I just want to see the day through your eyes.

At the end of the night, I took the cameras, and with the leftover exposures on a few of the camera’s I took pictures of our first day of married life… and the following days cleaning up the ceremony site on the farm/preparing for our honeymoon.

All in all, these images are very dear to us. I’ve decided to present them camera-by-camera because I believe it’s the best way to view them. Each stream has a persona, and that persona is one of my favorite pal’s on one of the best day’s of my life.

What I love about shooting with film is, I take the picture, I capture the moment and then I move on… I don’t look at it, judge it and make it better; I don’t get caught in this purgatory of fixing or this instant gratification of knowing it’s good. It’s living in the unknown and I bubble with excitement for the next moment.

About

Ryan Parker is a freelance Headshot, Portrait and Studio Photographer based in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He is also an accomplished film and theatre actor and takes his experience from the acting world into his studio.